Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 66 Personnel Selection and New Base Planning
After riding a motorcycle past the Shuanglukou Production Team, you can occasionally see people pulling wood on large carts on the road, usually with a dozen 4-5 meter long pine or fir trees piled on them.

Each cart is pulled by one person in the front and pushed by two people at the sides and rear.

There were also some half-grown children following the cart, carrying bundles of firewood, each as thick as an arm.

All these wood and firewood were transported to Wangjia Production Team.

My father said in the text machine that the team now uses a lot of wood. It is used to build houses, packaging boxes, clock bases, brick and tile factories, and boiler locomotives.

The team was no longer able to send people to the mountains to cut wood and transport the firewood, so they found the captains of other production teams and asked them to spread the word and have people cut wood and firewood and exchange them for money in Wangjia Production Team.

After the busy farming season, people from several nearby production teams would go up the mountain to chop trees and firewood. The money from the sales was divided between the team and individuals in proportion, with the individual taking 6%, and % being considered the team's income and distributed at the end of the year.

However, Wang Jiankun thinks that this work point system can only last for two years at most, because this system does not encourage more work and more pay. People with ideas and abilities cannot display their talents. After seeing other people getting rich, they will definitely try to find a way to break free from this shackles.

After arriving home, his two sisters kept surrounding him. He had no choice but to comfort them first, telling them that he had to come back in a hurry this time and would bring some delicious food and fun things next time. Seeing this, his two sisters did not make a fuss, but took out some snacks that their father had recently bought from Raozhou and the county town and shared them with him.

After eating two ginger candies that his sister brought to him like a treasure, Wang Jiankun went to take a look at the new house. His grandmother and aunt were there watching his uncle and another bricklayer build a wood stove.

Seeing Wang Jiankun coming back, grandma and aunt came over and asked him if he was hungry. They asked Wang Jiankun to go back with them to eat a fried egg to fill his stomach, saying that he had lost a lot of weight.

In fact, it was because he had grown taller recently that he looked thin. Wang Jiankun, who didn't want to refuse them, said that he was a little hungry and asked them to make some fried eggs. Then he greeted his uncle and another master who was working with him, handed them cigarettes, and then took over the conversation to talk about the progress of the house.

His uncle told him that the interior and exterior walls of the house had been painted with lime, the ground had been smoothed with cement, the windows, electric lights, sockets, etc. had also been installed, and some new furniture was still needed to be made by the carpenter in the team.

After chatting for a while, Queen Wang Jiankun went to eat fried eggs, and then went out to take a look at the team.

I haven't been back for almost half a month, and more than ten new houses in the team have been built, and more than ten are under construction.

However, most of the people who participated in building the house were from other production teams, and only one or two people from the owner's family stayed at home to cook and do odd jobs.

It seems that the team members are reluctant to give up the high salaries they earn working for the team, so they all hired people to build houses.

We went to the hydropower station and found that the water level in the river was much shallower. The canal flowing to the team had been blocked, and all the water went through the power generation canal, which was barely enough to power the two generators.

Wang Jiankun had no good solution to this situation. The team should arrange production in two shifts, and the water energy at night should also be utilized to meet the current order demand.

Next year, all orders from the north should be transferred to Yangzhou for production. At that time, the team will send a few people to take care of the finance and warehouse, because the flint and spring are in Wang Jiankun's hands, especially the flint, it will not be easy to imitate it in a short time.

I went to the lighter factory to check out the production situation. My mother is now the factory director and is in charge of finances. The production manager is Wang Jiping, who proposed the two-shift system last time. Now that he is arranging production matters, my mother is much more relaxed.

I talked to my mother about the production situation and revealed to her that we would open a factory in Yangzhou next year. I asked her to train more talents. If our team does not have enough candidates, talents from other production teams that are related to the Wangjia Production Team can also be trained. They can then be assigned to our team's factory or the factory in Yangzhou depending on the situation.

Then he went to the team's driving training base, where he had to select some people to drive the boat and serve as waiters.

My father stays here when he is not driving. Before, there were only 6 truck apprentices learning and training here. Last week, Wang Jiankun asked my father to select some young people to train their sense of balance and direction, and let them learn navigation knowledge. My father selected 10 people in total.

Two people who were obviously unsuitable for the balance test were eliminated because they vomited after spinning 10 times on the wooden swivel chair. So the remaining eight who passed are training and learning here.

The shipping materials were referenced from the textbooks of domestic shipping schools. Although the few people selected with good sense of balance and direction had only graduated from elementary school, Wang Jiankun did not force them to know the reasons. He only asked them to memorize them and know what to do when encountering different situations.

After all, the educational level of those privately contracted ship captains is not high. They have learned the relevant knowledge by driving ships and working on ships for a long time.

After Wang Jiankun arrived, he asked his father to gather the people who were selected to learn sailing. He would first test them and then train them separately.

They were first tested on shipping knowledge, which was all based on the study materials given previously, to test their memory and level of effort.

After the exam, Wang Jiankun used his super powers to grade the papers. All eight papers passed, and two even scored 8 points.

But he didn't announce the results immediately because he still needed to examine their sense of balance and direction.

Eight people got on the wooden swivel chair one by one. The rotation speed of this test was twice that of the previous selection and training, so the difficulty was increased. The final result was that three people were able to walk in a straight line of 8 meters after getting off the swivel chair, two people could walk in a straight line of 5 meters, and the remaining three people could not walk after getting off the swivel chair and fell to the ground directly.

After taking into account the previous academic performance, Wang Jiankun decided to train the three people with the best sense of direction and balance (Wang Yongjin, Wang Huawei, and Wang Zhaowei) to become captains, and the two people with a slightly poor sense of balance but with an academic performance of 80 points (Wang Xiaoyu and Wang Xiaolei) to become first mates. As for the three people with the worst sense of balance, he asked them whether they were willing to work as ticket sellers and waiters on the ship.

Originally, it would be better and more careful to choose women as ticket sellers and waiters, but for long-distance shipping on the Yangtze River, people are away for several days, and their parents would definitely not be at ease if women were hired, so it is best to hire men as ticket sellers and waiters.

Finally, all three agreed to go. Since they were all willing, there was no need to select people from other teams in the early stage. Different learning materials were distributed to the three groups of people, and they were told that they would have to take the assessment when they came back next time. If they failed the assessment, their salary during the training period would be deducted, so they were encouraged to study and train seriously.

Then he announced the disbandment and went home to have dinner with his father.

At the dinner table, Wang Jiankun reported to his grandfather about the establishment of a shipping team and told him the news that the commune's spring factory had successfully completed trial production. He was told to remember to go to the commune to discuss contributions and rewards, such as giving his father a leisurely position or something.

My father was also very happy to hear that he could become a formal cadre. My grandfather told my father and Wang Jiankun not to be anxious, because after the springs were produced they still had to go to the team to exchange them for money. It would be best if the commune secretary took the initiative to come to them. If he didn't come, it would be best to just delay him a little. The commune secretary would then understand, and it would be a shame to rush to speak now.

After listening to the lecture, Wang Jiankun realized that he still had a lot to learn and would ask his grandfather for advice on important matters in the future. Before leaving in the afternoon, Wang Jiankun asked his father to arrange to send two trucks with a total of 3 lighters to the warehouse of Dexing Copper Mine on Monday. He wanted to transport them to Yangzhou for sale. His father and mother agreed immediately, saying that there were 5 lighters in stock in the warehouse and sending them away would also reduce some inventory pressure.

I rode a motorcycle to the county town and went to the scrap recycling station first. Here, in addition to seeing Fang Guihua and several other junior high school classmates, I also saw Yu Zirun and Zheng Qian. Yu Zirun was practicing typing on the computer, while Zheng Qian was listening to an English radio broadcast.

When they saw Wang Jiankun coming back, they all came out to talk to him.

Wang Jiankun parked his motorcycle and chatted with them while washing and dusting himself off.

Knowing that it was Fang Guihua who casually asked Zheng Qian and Yu Zirun when distributing information whether they would like to go to Wang Jiankun's laboratory so that they could cook together at noon, the two agreed immediately without hesitation after hearing this.

However, Fang Guihua did not tell them that Wang Jiankun was not there at noon today, so they kept talking about it during the meal. In the end, he gave the opportunity to play on the computer and listen to the radio to them, and Fang Guihua and the others went to the laboratory to do some experiments and tools.

After chatting with them for a while, he sent Fang Guihua and Hu Chunming to the market on a motorcycle to buy vegetables for dinner.

I spent a few hours chatting and having dinner with the seven disciples, enjoying the time.

After sending them all away, Wang Jiankun returned to the underground base to continue testing the experimental reactor.

We took the elevator to the fourth floor of the underground base, first routinely excavated 150 cubic meters of space on the second floor, and then devoted our energy to testing the experimental reactor.

The nuclear fuel balls that had been used the night before could still be used, so the switch for refilling the fuel balls was pressed, and the small balls at the bottom were transferred to the top by the internal mechanical structure and refilled into the graphite column under the action of gravity.

The operation of the night before was repeated, and the experimental reactor started normally, but the heating rate was much slower than yesterday. This is because part of the uranium 235 in the fuel ball has been consumed, so the reaction rate will be slower.

After the start-up, Wang Jiankun only used part of his energy to monitor the operation of the reactor, and then devoted most of his energy to discussing with Zhizi the construction of high-energy physics experimental facilities.

Based on the information in her mind, Tomoko explained to him the basic situation of the microscopic particle experiment.

People first began to observe microscopic phenomena in the late 19th century. Since the three types of experiments, namely Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, Thomson's discovery of electrons, and Rutherford's discovery of alpha rays and beta rays, physicists have begun to focus on the physical phenomena of the microscopic world.

Since the establishment of quantum mechanics in the 20s, physicists have gradually realized that there is a world at the microscopic scale that is very different from the macroscopic world, but because its scale is very small, it is necessary to use some special instruments to observe the phenomena in it.

The earliest experimental tools and instruments were photographs and cloud chambers. By exposing photographic negatives to radiation, some basic physical parameters of radiation could be studied. A cloud chamber is a transparent container that can produce supersaturated steam. The incident particles form a series of ionized atoms in the supersaturated steam as condensation nuclei, which in turn form a series of mists on the particle track.

Scientists infer the properties of these microscopic particles by studying and analyzing the structure and shape of the tracks left by them.

The cloud chamber is a device that is meaningful to Wang Jiankun's research and understanding of microscopic particles, so he decided to manufacture it for observation, and asked Zhizi to allocate part of its computing power to design the cloud chamber.

Then a more powerful particle physics research tool, the cyclotron particle accelerator, was introduced.

Its basic structure is two semicircular D-shaped boxes and an alternating electric field between the D-shaped boxes. A magnetic field that can deflect charged particles is applied to the two semicircular D-shaped boxes.

The working principle is to place a particle source at the center of the cyclotron. The charged particles emitted by the source can be accelerated by the electric field. When entering the magnetic field of the semicircular D-shaped box, they are deflected by the magnetic field and enter the alternating electric field between the D-shaped boxes again.

If the timing is just right, the direction of the AC electric field can be reversed, and the charged particles can be accelerated again.

By repeating this process many times, the charged particles will be accelerated to higher energy, and their energy and direction can be controlled, making it very convenient to study the properties of microscopic particles.

The principle of this device is simple, but it is still difficult to control the direction of current change and synchronize it with the arrival time of particles. It requires knowledge from many disciplines. However, with the super assistance of the sophon, we still have to find a way to manufacture it.

More advanced equipment has been produced by laboratories in Europe and the United States, namely the synchrotron accelerator, which can adjust the frequency of the uniform magnetic field and electric field changes of the cyclotron particle accelerator so that the charged particles can obtain greater energy.

Its structure can be made into a large ring, and the charged particles move along the ring with a constant radius. By adjusting the electric and magnetic fields, the charged particles can be continuously accelerated. If the radius is large enough and the electric and magnetic fields are strong enough, the charged particles can be accelerated to near the speed of light.

If the electric and magnetic fields can be controlled more precisely, two beams of charged particles can be accelerated around the device in opposite directions and finally controlled to collide at a predetermined position. The energy can shatter protons and electrons, allowing the device to observe the smallest structure in the current theoretical language - elementary particles.

Finally, this type of equipment is still in the design and verification stage in the United States, while Europe has invested more and is already in the manufacturing stage. Wang Jiankun is thinking that if he has the opportunity to visit there in the future, he can use his super powers to replicate the equipment.

However, that is a long-term plan for the future. Making the first three types of equipment and conducting research on them should allow me to have a deeper understanding of neutrons and protons.

Due to research needs, Wang Jiankun decided to expand the underground base further, going another 100 meters underground. The synchrotron accelerator was built 100 meters underground, and the cloud chamber and D-type cyclotron particle accelerator were placed on the third floor to conduct some simple research first.

Keep the reactor working all the time, and the electricity generated will be stored in the lead-acid energy storage system. At the same time, the lights in the passages of the underground base will always be on, so there is no need to always press the switch.

Back in the room on the ground, Wang Jiankun sent a message to his uncle, asking him about some matters concerning weapons and equipment. He could provide some precision parts and let his uncle arrange for the manufacture of other supporting parts and then assemble them.

Wang Jiankun projected some individual weapons and equipment from the Perry-class destroyer, such as automatic rifles, sniper rifles, night vision goggles, etc.

My uncle has no use for anti-ship missiles yet, but he can refer to the design principles. When I have time, I will ask Chieko to help design an individual air defense or anti-armor missile.

(End of this chapter)